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Monday, 28 March 2016

If Jesus was alive today, would he be a member of the Chinese Communist Party?

So too will the possibility of religion acting as a critical, independent voice of conscience in modern day China.

"I choose to lead a Christian life within the law," Pastor Wu from the official church in Beijing says.

"I certainly will not do what the government does not allow me to do, let's say, preach the gospel in the subway to cause a lot of people to come to me and as a result the street or the road gets blocked."

For a government whose overriding concern is the prevention of mass gathering and unrest, it is the perfect, text-book answer.

Chairman Mao may have failed to destroy the church, but the modern Communist Party has gone one better, it has succeeded in co-opting it.